
# Replication Data for: Domestic Groups' Testimonies at US Foreign Aid Hearings from 1980 to 2020: Findings from a New Dataset

This repository contains the data and replication code for the analysis presented in the paper entitled "Domestic Groups' Testimonies at US Foreign Aid Hearings from 1980 to 2020: Findings from a New Dataset."

## Files

- **descriptive_statistics.R**: An R script containing replication code to generate the descriptive statistics reported.
- **corpus.csv**: A comma-separated (UTF-8) file with preprocessed text data (tokens) used for BERTopic modeling, coupled with metadata for the hearing dates, titles, committees, congress(house/senate), witness names, organizations, types, etc.
- **bertopic.ipynb**: A Jupyter Notebook with replication code for the BERTopic analysis presented.
- **libraries.txt**: A text file with information on the Python libraries and their versions used.

## Note

Please ensure that you have installed all the required Python libraries and dependencies before running the Jupyter notebook. You can find the list of necessary packages and their versions used in the analysis in `libraries.txt`.

